ABSTRACT
Bill exemplifies the client suffering from severely destructive introjects. Bill is a young psychiatrist who has finished his residency and is frightened about going on with his career. He acts unsure of himself, and holds himself back in social situations, particularly with women. As the old, limiting Parent ego state is decommissioned, Bill will need to do further redecision work. Both Parent and Child ego state material will then need to be integrated into his overall personality functioning. The relationship with the therapist provides the Child ego state with a new parental model. For the therapy to be successful, information needs to be taken in through all channels: cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and physical. The therapist provides a caring and safe environment, free from Parental abuse, in which the Child ego state can confront parental figures or experiment with prohibited behaviors.
